Judge to weigh whether unsealing affidavit for Mar-a-Lago raid will jeopardize Trump investigation

[libertybele]

No way is this judge going to unseal the affidavit.

Judge to weigh whether unsealing affidavit for Mar-a-Lago raid will jeopardize Trump investigation

A federal magistrate in Florida is set to hold a hearing Thursday on whether to make public the probable cause affidavit used to justify the FBI's raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

The hearing is in response to several media outlets asking the court to make the affidavit public to understand the reasoning for a raid on the home of a former commander-in-chief.

Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who green-lit the original search warrant Aug. 5, is slated to preside over the hearing, although it is unclear whether he will make a decision from the bench or take the case under advisement.

The hearing comes as political tensions have heightened since news of the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago first broke last week over Trump's purported failure to hand over presidential records and classified documents to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Trump, for his part, claims that his staff was working with the National Archives to provide the documents as required under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

"Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," Trump said in a statement last week. "After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate."

Trump also claims that seized documents were declassified and therefore not subject to special safeguarding requirements. Given the denials, GOP lawmakers have called for the Justice Department to make public its affidavit laying out its justification for a search warrant for the home of a former president.

"They can redact the names and other sensitive information, but DOJ must lay their cards on the table," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "Media speculation is rampant … Let America see the affidavit." ............

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-weigh-whether-unsealing-affidavit-justifying-mar-a-lago-raid-jeopardize-trump-investigation

[aligncare]

Let’s get real here. The question is will unsealing the affidavit jeopardize Trump’s conviction and execution. I wonder what’s going through the judges mind, right about now.

[libertybele]

Let’s get real here. The question is will unsealing the affidavit jeopardize Trump’s conviction and execution. I wonder what’s going through the judges mind, right about now.

The same judge that gave the go ahead for the warrant is going to be making the decision, gee, what do you think he's going to decide??  This is absolutely absurd!

[Killer Clouds]

Trump and his legal team are entitled to know that information.

[Kamaji]

Let’s get real here. The question is will unsealing the affidavit jeopardize Trump’s conviction and execution. I wonder what’s going through the judges mind, right about now.

[verga]

The same judge that gave the go ahead for the warrant is going to be making the decision, gee, what do you think he's going to decide??  This is absolutely absurd!

Sounds like a conflict of interest to me.

[libertybele]

Sounds like a conflict of interest to me.

Recusal is in order.

[Cyber Liberty]

This Epstein Judge won't allow the affidavit to be released because it would prove his own malfeasance.